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As the epidemic in the United States accelerated in March, the Centers for Disease Control muddied the rules for counting Covid deaths. The CDC explicitly told medical examiners and physicians to use loose criteria when they labeled deaths as Covid-related. On March 24, 2020, the CDC issued a one-page bulletin introducing a new International Classi

Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

Data Provocation: Hospitals are broken and ripe for technological disruption. I have been following General Catalyst’s bold moves lately, including helping found several healthcare companies and most recently acquiring an entire healthcare system in the United States. My hope is that this leads to a vertically integrated re-imagination of healthca

Scott Belsky • The Rise of Open-Sourced R&D, How Communal Resourcefulness Will Protect Us, & Wild Data Provocations

“People’s sense of what is possible in terms of control changed quite dramatically between January and March,” Ferguson would say later. Even after the Chinese lockdown, SAGE hadn’t thought Western countries would tolerate lockdowns. “Then Italy did it. And we realized we could.”29 But only if people were sufficiently terrified. Fortunately, Fergus